Mansfield District Hospital

Privacy Policy & Freedom of Information

Privacy Policy

The Victorian Privacy Act 2000 has set the standards for the way in which Victorian Government organisations and statutory bodies collect and handle your personal information. Information privacy covers the handling of personal information, be it patient, resident, client or employee information that may clearly identify an individual. This information is held within the organisation in a variety of electronic and paper forms, the majority of which comprise medical and personal records.

The Director of Nursing is the organisation's Privacy Officer. Information Privacy Principles are now applied to all management and security procedures relating to:

• Records which allow an individual to be immediately identified, such as those which contain names and addresses;
• Records which contain enough information to allow an individual to be identified, including those containing individual identifiers such as Medicare number, UR number, employee number, or enough detail of medical conditions, social situation or other events as to risk identification.

Literature on the Privacy Principles and how it affects users of our service is available at the Hospital, Buckland House and Bindaree Retirement Centre.